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Kurtosis

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homokurtosisnoun	(statistics) The property of a series of random variables of every variable having the same finite kurtosis
excess kurtosisnoun	(statistics) Kurtosis minus 3; the difference between the kurtosis of a given distribution and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.
mesokurtosisnoun	(statistics) The property of having kurtosis equal to that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having zero excess kurtosis.
heterokurtosisnoun	(statistics) The property of a series of random variables of not every variable having the same finite kurtosis
fat tailnoun	The relatively high probability of a relatively extreme outcome.
cauchy distributionnoun	(statistics) A symmetric continuous probability distribution with fat tails, with probability density function that is
tukey lambda distributionnoun	(statistics) A continuous, symmetric probability distribution defined in terms of its quantile function, typically used to identify an appropriate distribution.
chi-square distributionnoun	(statistics) A probability distribution widely used in inferential statistics.
long tailnoun	(marketing, sometimes capitalized) Sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs.
tailednessnoun	(mathematics, especially in combination) The condition of a distribution in having a specified form of tail
probability distributionnoun	(statistics) A distribution of all possible values of a random variable together with an indication of their probabilities.
curvaturenoun	The shape of something curved.
t distributionnoun	(statistics) Ellipsis of Student's t distribution. [(statistics) A distribution that arises when the population standard deviation is unknown and has to be estimated from the data.]
quadratic formnoun	(mathematics, number theory, algebra) A homogeneous polynomial of degree 2 in a given number of variables.
chebyshev's inequalitynoun	(statistics) The theorem that in any data sample with finite variance, the probability of any random variable X that lies k or more standard deviations away from the mean is no more than 1/k², i.e. assuming mean μ and standard deviation σ, the probability is:
q-q plotnoun	A probability plot, which is a graphical method for comparing two probability distributions by plotting their quantiles against each other.
bell curvenoun	(probability theory) The bell-shaped curve that is typical of the normal distribution.
box and whiskers plotnoun	(statistics) A graphical summary of a numerical data sample through five statistics — median, upper quartile, lower quartile, and upper extreme and lower extreme values — by depiction as a box with its edges at the quartile marks and an internal line at the median and with lines protruding from the box as far as the extremal values.
bathtub curvenoun	A curve used in reliability engineering, describing a particular form of the hazard function taking into account three categories of failure rate.
quantilenoun	(statistics) One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability.